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A Big Headache: An Unusual Case of Hypertensive Urgency in an Adolescent. [PDF]

Clin Pediatr (Phila), 2021
Reid HW, Moorthy G, Clark D, Cannon L, Ming DY.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bioelectrical Impedance in Pediatric Dialysis: Clinical Applications, Limitations, and Opportunities

Hemodialysis International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Optimizing fluid and nutritional management is a cornerstone of care for children with end‐stage kidney disease on dialysis. Inaccurate assessment of hydration status contributes to hypertension, fluid overload, and increased cardiovascular risk, while masking important changes in muscle and fat compartments that affect growth and ...
Marisa Juarez‐Calderon, Jessica Geer, Molly Wong Vega   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hypertensive Urgency Secondary to a Malignant Pheochromocytoma and Its Complex Treatment Course: A Case Report. [PDF]

Cureus, 2022
Elkammash A, Alsinan M, Madi K, Abbas A, Degheidy N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The uncomfortable science in the womb: How biological experience disrupts surrogacy narratives

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The discourse surrounding surrogacy portrays pregnancy as a temporary process, depicting surrogates as neutral “carriers” whose involvement concludes at birth. This narrative minimizes gestation's biological significance despite evidence of its lasting effects on both women and children.
Orit Chorowicz Bar‐Am, Elly Teman, Yael Hashiloni‐Dolev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hypertensive emergency and urgency in children and adolescents – diagnostics and treatment

, 2013
Although the prevalence of hypertension in the paediatric population is rising, simultaneously with the rise in childhood obesity worldwide, hypertensive emergencies are unusual in clinical practice.
Krenc, Zbigniew
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Hypertensive crisis: Insights into prevalence and associated factors at a tertiary care facility in Zambia.

PLOS Global Public Health
BackgroundHypertensive crisis, including hypertensive emergency (with target organ damage) and hypertensive urgency (without target organ damage), is a critical public health condition at Livingstone University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
Lukundo Siame, Mbulazi B Kabeta, Gift C Chama, Lweendo Muchaili, Ceaser Wankumbu Silumbwe, Benson M Hamooya, Bislom C Mweene, Situmbeko Liweleya, Sydney Mulamfu, Joreen P Povia, Sepiso K Masenga   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inflammatory Pseudotumor After Total Hip Arthroplasty‐An Increasingly Recognized Complication

Orthopaedic Surgery, EarlyView.
This review systematically elucidates the clinical characteristics and management of inflammatory pseudotumor (IP) across different bearing surfaces, addressing a topic of increasing concern and providing a novel perspective. It synthesizes the five primary risk factors associated with IP, offering clinicians critical reference points.
Steve T. L. Pambayi, Zhi Zhao, Hongjun Peng, Ruihao Xia, Xishan Zhu, Wangdui Suolang, Gang Wang, Xiaoou Li, Yi Zeng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment of hypertensive urgency with ear acupuncture in patients diagnosed with hypertension decompensated

Acta Médica del Centro, 2016
A prospective quasi-experimental study was conducted in the Hospital “Comandante Manuel Fajardo Rivero” Hospital from September 2009 to March 2013 and its main purpose was focused on evaluating the results of ear acupuncture in the treatment of ...
Javier Rodríguez Domínguez, Marisabel García Gutiérrez, Vianka Momplet Pérez, Leonardo Leiva Acebey, Mario Comas Riera, Martha Ferriol Rodríguez   +5 more
doaj  

Comparing outcomes of clonidine and captopril in patients with hypertensive urgency: A randomized clinical trial. [PDF]

ARYA Atheroscler, 2022
Mirdamadi A, Abrishamkar R, Kargaran A.
europepmc   +1 more source